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83 year old reader, music lover, art lover. Faves Beethoven, John Coltrane, Rembrandt, Beckett, Shakespeare etc etc
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We should all be so lucky ! I am !

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I am 83 and on a whim I have created a list of the 83 books I would read again given the time ! I shall read a few until ………

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Royal Shakespeare Co new season announced incl. Measure for Measure, Winter’s Tale and Titus Andronicus !!😁😁

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Holocaust Memorial day . As the Palestinians return to their piles of rubble to find their slaughtered children !😱😱😱😱

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War and Peace in the Pevear and Volokhonski translation. In fact if you read any Russian novel that is available in the P and V translation , get it ! Therese by Francois Mauriac In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck Dubliners by James Joyce All books that will inform your life.?

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Indent by Cecil Taylor Any of the seven albums by the original Ornette Coleman quartet on the Atlantic label. Out to Lunch by Eric Dolphy

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Paintings Bathsheba reading King David’s letter by Rembrandt Self portrait by Rembrandt in National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh And the one in Nat Gallery, Trafalgar Square Carravagio’s Dinner at Emmeaus also in Nat Gallery London

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Music A Love Supreme live recording Antibes 1965. John Coltrane Interstellar Space album of duets - Coltrane and drummer Rashied Ali Porgy and Bess. Miles Davis with Gil Evans Orchestra Kind of Blue - of course !!!! Any solo Thelonious Monk album.

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Music Goldberg variations. Greatest five minutes of music Benedictus from Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis.

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The greatest movie is Mirror directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Greatest western The Wild Bunch directed by Sam Peckinpah. Greatest gangster Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorcese War film The Deer Hunter directed by Michael Cimino Unclassifiable Taxi Driver directed by Martin again More to follow

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Not possible not to mention Gisèlle Pelicot ! What a brave woman ! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Been away for health reasons Favourite pieces of music. First two . Beethoven string quartet no. 14 Beethoven piano sonata no. 32. The arietta. For me, the two greatest works ever composed.

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One of my favourite quotes Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Denis Diderot

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Anna Karenina As I Lay Dying Crime and Punishment Moby Dick Jude The Obscure Molloy Our Mutual Friend Blood Meridian Under the Volcano Recollection of a Journey

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Where’s my post of an hour ago gone ??????

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More and more facilities may ‘Disneyfy’ it. I’d rather it was left as monument, car park. It’s isolation without any trimmings increases the majesty and mystery. For me. But I am an old fart. Make things too comfortable for people and they’ll mess it up. Seen it all my life.

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I have read for 78 years and have read a vast amount, among which are a few books that are achievements so profound that I would see them as great books that once read leave something within you for life.

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Lewis, Outer Hebrides

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Here

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Look And finished in next post

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Schumann, Frank Sinatra, RobertJohnson, SonHouse, Tuvan throat singers, Shostakovich, Webern, Tom Waits….again etc, etc. Music an essential of my life. With reading. And writing.

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First, check my age above. Now….music. I have iPod classic, 160 gig currently over 12000 tracks. By…eg. The Clash, Arctic Monkeys, Royal Blood, Eminem, Albert Ayler, Charles Gayle, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Tom Waits, David Murray, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, John Lennon etc To be continued

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